"An aerial photograph of Fort McMurray Alberta in 1991. Fort McMurray is predominantly an oil sands mining town (the mines are 30 to 60km north of town and barely visible on the horizon of the photo. With the boom in oil sands, the town has grown to almost 70,000 people in recent years.
The photo shows part of downtown and the confluence of the Clearwater and Athabasca Rivers. Highway 38 is visible in the foreground, the red buildings are the Provincial Building and City Hall.
The photograph is taken out the open door of a small Cessna airplane -- it was about +1C, so it was quite cold in the plane -- we had our parkas on. Early in the morning, the air is still, and this offers a chance to capture the fall colours. The photo has taken with a Hasselblad 500C, with an 80mm lens, and Ektar 25 film."
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